Rubin Carter

Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter's story is one of the most harrowing miscarriages of justice in American history, and it's almost unbearable to think he lost nineteen of his prime years to a crime he didn't commit. He was a genuinely ferocious middleweight contender before the system swallowed him whole, and what amazes me is that he came out of two decades behind bars not consumed by bitterness but determined to free others. Bob Dylan's protest anthem and Denzel Washington's powerhouse performance in The Hurricane kept his cause alive, but Carter himself was the real force, turning his suffering into advocacy until his death in 2014.

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Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter (May 6, 1937 - April 20, 2014) was an American middleweight boxer who was wrongfully convicted of a 1966 triple murder in Paterson, New Jersey. He spent nearly twenty years in prison before his convictions were overturned in 1985. His case became an international symbol of racial injustice, inspiring Bob Dylan's 1975 song 'Hurricane' and the 1999 film The Hurricane starring Denzel Washington. After his release he became a prominent advocate for the wrongfully convicted.

Name (English)

Rubin Carter

Name (Japanese)

ルービン・カーター

Reading

るーびん・かーたー

Born

May 6, 1937 – April 20, 2014

Origin

Clifton, New Jersey, United States

Height

173cm

Occupation

Boxer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Ox

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubin%20Carter
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%93%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q452772

Tags

• From New Jersey
• Boxer

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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